美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-11-28

 That was an enthusiastic intro, and credit goes to Ms.Barmer's students for today's hello. Glad to have all of you middle and high school students out there watching, the CNN student news kicks off its Tuesday, November 27 broadcast.

 

 

 

Starting in the US northeast today, we've talked about how the recovery from Superstorm Sandy is going to take a while. There are thousands of people who can't get back in their homes, miles of pipes have to be reconnected, mold, as we show you yesterday, has to be dealt with and bills. Everything from cleanup cost to unpaid¹ bills from people who had to evacuate², those are piling up. These were a few of the issues brought up yesterday during a state hearing in New Jersey³. Officials there trying to get a handle on Tuesday. How to pay reconstruction⁴ efforts and what kinds of plants can be made to better protect the area if another storm hits. Meanwhile, New York has got 27 million dollars from the federal government to hire about 5,000 unemployed⁵ New Yorkers for work on Sandy cleanup projects. The jobs will be full-time⁶, but temporary. New York's governor and New York city's mayor are asking for more federal money to make additional repairs in their state.

Today's first shoutout goes out to Mr.Weisbeck's senior government class, at Timber Lake High School in Timber Lake, South Dakota.

Lewis Hamilton, Dario Frachitti and Juan Pablo Montoya are all known for their roles in what? you know what to do, are they all invovled in auto⁷ racing⁸, theatre, horse racing or Congress. You've three seconds, go...

All three of these guys are invovled in auto racing. That's your answer and that's your shoutout.

 

And you can add Tristan Nunez to that list. At 17 years old, he's around your age, he is one of the youngest auto racing champions ever. And what better spokesman against distracted driving than someone who wants to race cars for a living. Victor Blackwell joins us now with a tale of two talents. One about a driver, one about somebody who's hoping that one day phones and driving will disconnect.

 

"All right, driver, come get in line over here please."

Race car drivers on a race track, no big surprise. What might surprise you is that the favourite to win this race is just 17 years old.

"And you half the field this side, half the field on the side of trester."

He is Tristan Nunez from Boca Raton, Florida, he started racing go-carts at 13. And then graduate to this at 15 before he was licensed⁹ to drive through his neighbourhood.

 

"My mom and my self actually feel safer driving on a race track with professional drivers than driving on the regular roads with people who have no idea what they are doing."

He revs¹⁰ up to above 150 miles per hour around this track.

"At that speed, there can be any little distraction¹¹, it can be an injury, could be death."

Actually that can happen at any speed. Before the start of the 2012 racing season, a little distraction off the track nearly created a major problem.

 

"I was with mom in my car, and we almost got into accident because she was facebooking, emailing whatever is distracted."

 

"We almost reared-ended somebody, and he, you know, that's when we really, it really hit us, he is like, mom, you've got to put the phone down."

 

So Tristan and his mom Diane Nunez had an idea to inspire other people, especially young people to put the phone down by branding his car "the don't text and drive car.

 

"We put it all over the car and put it on a suit, put it on the website and just took off."

 

"And you've got bracelet¹² because when they raise up there, their hand, with the phone, they see it, exactly."

 

"So, I mean, it just serves as a constant reminder¹³ not to do it."

 

Hundreds of teens have pledges to the "not text and drive", some may be even signed Tristan's car as part of pledge.

 

"It's just distracting, it's, you get caught up in another world, compeletly suffer from what you are trying to do."

 

"There is not really a lot teenage of race car drivers out there, so it was, definitely good for them to go on a teenage's car."

 

"I know we are not gonna stop it, but at least it's gonna bring more awareness¹⁴ to people."

 

Tristan was the big winner on this day at Road Atlanta.

 

And he tells teens to look up to him, the key to his success on the track is the same key to staying safe on the road.

 

"You had to have 100 percent focus, you can't loose your focus for any, any reason at all."

 

1 unpaid   

adj.未付款的，无报酬的

参考例句：

• Doctors work excessive unpaid overtime.医生过度加班却无报酬。
• He's doing a month's unpaid work experience with an engineering firm.他正在一家工程公司无偿工作一个月以获得工作经验。

2 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

3 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

4 reconstruction   

n.重建，再现，复原

参考例句：

• The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
• In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。

5 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

6 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

7 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

8 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。

9 licensed   

adj.得到许可的v.许可，颁发执照(license的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• The new drug has not yet been licensed in the US. 这种新药尚未在美国获得许可。
• Is that gun licensed? 那支枪有持枪执照吗？

10 revs   

abbr.revolutions （复数）旋转，回转，转数n.发动机的旋转( rev的名词复数 )v.（使）加速( rev的第三人称单数 )；（数量、活动等）激增；（使发动机）快速旋转；（使）活跃起来

参考例句：

• The engine was doing 6000 revs. 引擎转速为6000。 来自互联网
• Shared primary objectives included the highest possible torque and fast response from low revs. 共同的主要目标包括尽可能高转矩和响应速度快的低转速。 来自互联网

11 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

12 bracelet   

n.手镯，臂镯

参考例句：

• The jeweler charges lots of money to set diamonds in a bracelet.珠宝匠要很多钱才肯把钻石镶在手镯上。
• She left her gold bracelet as a pledge.她留下她的金手镯作抵押品。

13 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

14 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。